Special Topic: Human Rights and Media Documents

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Methods/Procedure
This study wanted to study the relationship between social capital and social networking sites,
specifically Facebook. The use of Facebook and relation to an university students life
satisfaction, social trusts, civic participation are a

MILGRAM STUDY
- Small world investigations
- Weaker interracial ties can be more effective in bridging social distance (white to black
acquaintance had more success rate than white to black friend)
- Smallest total number of people were reached through th

Aliases, creeping and Wall Cleaning
Kate Raynes-Goldie
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Since launch, FB has received great deal of criticism for privacy practices
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According to Zuckerberg, FB is designed to increase the efficiency and
transperancy of communication
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Aka: voluntary

Facebook Privacy Implications
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Depends on the level of identifiability of the information provided, its possible recipients,
and its possible uses
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Even sites that dont openly expose their users identities may provide enough
information to identify the

Blogging the New Arab Public
Marc Lync
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Blogs reach only a fraction of the audience of Al Jazeera or even state doinated newspaper
Where bloggers hve been politically influential (ie Egypt, Bahrain), repressive regimes have been able
to crack down on the

Intensity of Facebook Use
Instead of using the traditional method of gauging at the frequency or duration of exposure, they used a
meansurements developed by Ellison, Stampfield and Lampe, through a scale to see at user engagement
whocreatedascaletogaugeu

GROSS READING
Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks (The Facebook Case)
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The rapid increase in participation in recent years has been accompanied by a
progressive diversification and sophistication of purposes and usage patterns ac